345579 - updating an img src tag using javascript fails to actually... update the image

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[lkcl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060326 Firefox/1.5.0.3 (Debian-1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.3-2)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060326 Firefox/1.5.0.3 (Debian-1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.3-2)

there are web sites where i have to use mozilla-1.7.2 because
firefox doesn't cope with this issue.  imagine that you have
a site which contains user profiles, and there is an onclick which
activates some javascript to change the img src tag.  in mozilla 1.7.2
it works; in firefox, it doesn't.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1) shove attached files into a web server
2) edit popup.html to put in your own favourite images
3) put http://127.0.0.1/wherever/popup.html
4) click on image
5) watch the blank window popup in puzzlement
6) repeat 3 and 4 with mozilla-1.7.2 and go "huh???"

Actual Results:  
popup (it's not a popup, it's walter zorn's DHTML library) doesn't show the image

Expected Results:  
i expect the image to appear.

Comment 1

[lkcl]

Attachment: main demo file

Comment 2

[lkcl]

Attachment: walter zorn's DHTML library

Comment 3

[Kevin Brosnan]

WFM using http://www.walterzorn.com/dragdrop/dragdrop_e.htm

Comment 4

[lkcl]

apologies for not making it explicitly clear where the test/fail cases
are: i believed that the info about OS being linux would be sufficient
and also the fact that i'm a free software developer and wouldn't be
seen dead using windows unless you paid me a lot of money and let me use
free software development tools and software, then i'm a whore like
everyone else.

yes, likewise, the demo code on walter zorn's site also works for me.

however, the reported bug has xxxx-all to do with the demo examples
on walter zorn's site, and also this is a linux-specific failure.

did you try the specific example in the attached demo code, which
works on:

* firefox on windows
* mozilla-1.7.2 on linux

and fails on:

* firefox on linux (debian/unstable)

Comment 5

[lkcl]

if, after clicking on the demo image to make the DHTML-popup occur,
i then go right-mouse-button "view image", it even _says_ "spacer.gif" not found.

btw i just upgraded to 1.5.0.4 and the problem is now even worse:

* walter zorn's DHTML drag-drop capability doesn't work
* when the popup first appears it looks ok (other than it's blank)
  but when you right-click in it it looks like you're accessing the
  div below not the image
* when you try to drag-drop it fails and then after you let go of
  the mouse the DHTML-popup "updates" - and one of those
  "image not present" icons appear - which wasn't there before-hand.

this is very bizarre behaviour.

Comment 6

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with the latest Firefox 2? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

Comment 7

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Making a testcase from the attached files works for me using
Firefox 2.0.0.11 and Firefox trunk 2007122604 on Linux.

-> WORKSFORME